In this riveting memoir of the ghosts that haunt her hometown in Mississippi, two-time novelist and National Book Award–winner Ward (Salvage the Bones) writes intimately about the pall of blighted ...

"Let Us Descend" (Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, part of Paramount Global), the latest novel from two-time National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward, is thick with ghosts, history and searing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward is first woman to win twice for Fiction for ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’ "Great American Novelist ...

She recounts her experience of growing up black and poor in rural Mississippi in Reagan’s 1980s and the early 21st century, ...

October 2000. A funeral service for Jesmyn Ward's younger brother Joshua in DeLisle, Miss., a small rural community in the Gulf Coast pinewoods. There are other young black men among the family and ...

Jesmyn Ward’s latest novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” is a multivocal book, switching voices from chapter to chapter. But its moral anchor is a young boy named JoJo, a biracial child in Mississippi who ...

The National Book Awards will celebrate its 75th anniversary at this year’s ceremony, on Nov. 20. To mark the occasion, The Washington Post has collaborated with the administrator and presenter of the ...

In “The Fire This Time,” National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward has gathered a stunning roster of contemporary writers of color to reflect on race in the present, and in the shadow of the past. Two ...

NEW YORK — Novels by Jesmyn Ward and James McBride and story collections by Jamal Brinkley and Kelly Link are among the finalists Wednesday for the 10th annual Kirkus Prizes, for which winners in ...

Six years ago, a young, relatively unknown writer from Mississippi published "Salvage the Bones." In lush prose that felt determined to sprout off the page, the novel described a poor African American ...

Author Jesmyn Ward is regularly called a modern William Faulkner. She sets her novels in small-town Mississippi, and uses that setting to explore how America’s racist past continues to burden its ...

“Great American Novelist” has long been a pretty masculinized term, a way of jumping straight to names with the largest cultural visibility at the expense of women and people of color. And even as ...